Richard O’Connor came very close to expelling the Italians out of North Africa, if things hadn’t distracted the British drawing away his troops, there very well could have been no Afrika Corps or El Alamein. Rommel and Monty would have had to make their names elsewhere.

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Then-General (later Field Marshal) Erwin Rommel in a trench near Tobruk, along with an officer from the Italian contingent that accompanied Rommel on this tour (September 1941, partially colorized by Doug).